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Hello and thanks for visiting my blog. I have been knitting on and off for 50 years and I recently learned to crochet. I love looking for wool bargains and making them into something useful. I mainly knit for charity. I occasionally knit for myself and family members if I find a really good pattern or if they ask nicely!!

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Wednesday, 17 June 2015

The variegated hat...

Having already crocheted with this Robin variegated dk yarn, I wanted to see what it would look like when knitted. The colour changes are VERY short. It is really only possible to knit 2, 3, or 4 stitches before the pink changes to purple, then to lilac. I actually looked forward to the colour pooling in larger blobs because otherwise the effect would have been just small speckles.

I slightly prefer the knitted effect to the crocheted effect, but don't think I have yet found the ideal pattern to use with this yarn. I have another 300g of this yarn just waiting for a project. I'm open to suggestions!!

The hat pattern is one of my favourite as it is so simple. The "small adult" size used only 33g of yarn. Here it is on Ravelry.

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Thanks for the pattern link. We hat-makers are always looking for that perfect pattern! In our prayer shawl ministry group, two ladies used the same variegated yarn for shawls -- one knitted, and one crocheted. It's fascinating how different the color patterns ended up looking!